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Title: Here's another good Aurora watch site
Post by: darkbrowneggs on February 25, 2014, 07:24:57 pm

http://www.softservenews.com/Aurora.htm (http://www.softservenews.com/Aurora.htm)

Title: Re: Here's another good Aurora watch site
Post by: darkbrowneggs on February 25, 2014, 08:29:34 pm

Nice piccie here though most of the good photos are taken with extra long exposure and from a tripod, so I won't be doing anything like that,  Apparently you can get a really good photo when there is almost nothing to see with the naked eye, so a bit of a cheat I suppose, but still lovely to dream


http://www.davegifford.co.uk/aurora-display (http://www.davegifford.co.uk/aurora-display)

Title: Re: Here's another good Aurora watch site
Post by: darkbrowneggs on February 25, 2014, 08:39:09 pm

And some more time lapse shots


Da Mirrie Dancers at St Ninian's Isle on Vimeo (http://vimeo.com/86781617)

Title: Re: Here's another good Aurora watch site
Post by: john and helen on February 28, 2014, 08:40:06 am

did you see the one last night..a friend in Hull managed to get a few shots..i can imagine it was superb further North

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-26378027 (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-26378027)

Title: Re: Here's another good Aurora watch site
Post by: clydesdaleclopper on February 28, 2014, 09:52:42 am

I saw it - first time I have looked for it too  :excited:

Title: Re: Here's another good Aurora watch site
Post by: darkbrowneggs on February 28, 2014, 09:59:27 am

No .... I was waiting at the Ferry Terminal with all the ferry and harbour lights it was nearly as light as day.  I could see a greenish glow and there was masses of stuff to be unloaded for Orkney so we were very late sailing  Grrrrrrr....... On Shetland now and waiting for the Bressay Up Helly Aa tonight.  The man on the Bressay ferry said it was the best display he had seen in his 40 years  ::)

Title: Re: Here's another good Aurora watch site
Post by: john and helen on February 28, 2014, 11:15:46 am

You may still be lucky..guy on BBC said there where a few solar flares..so fingers crossed that you do see it

Title: Re: Here's another good Aurora watch site
Post by: Fleecewife on February 28, 2014, 11:20:51 am

I didn't look until about 0430 by which time there was a rising mist so I didn't see a thing.  Will look tonight.

Love the pics on the link - the one at Foxley is taken from about a mile from where I grew up in Norfolk.  When I was a child my parents saw the lights only once, and I was asleep at the time - grrr  :rant: